Friday, November 6, 2015

It's Not Just for Thanksgiving: Being Thankful This Month & All Year Long.

No matter who you are or how much emphasis you put on thankfulness in your daily life, you can't deny that Thanksgiving just brings about an attitude of thankfulness. For me, all of November is just full of constant reminders to be thankful. The month is full of magic and happiness and reasons to overflow with thankfulness.

Every November, I'm always thinking about how much I have to be thankful for. Drinking coffee outside with my husband, having a picnic with our pup, lighting pumpkin candles at night, getting ready to celebrate Thanksgiving together...these are all things that make me explode with happiness.

Right now, at the beginning of the month, I want to stop and tell myself to let this month be a reminder to practice thankfulness all year long.

After November has passed, after fall is gone and Thanksgiving has ended, when the holidays have come and gone and Christmas music is a distant memory, there is still so much to be thankful for.

Logically, we know there are things to be thankful for. We know that if we had dinner last night, we're luckier than a lot of people. We know that if we have a bed to sleep in, we should be thankful for that. But knowing something and putting it into practice are two different things.

This coming year, I don't want to just know that I have things to be thankful for; I want to practice thankfulness all year long. In the same way that November fills me with gratefulness, I want the whole year to be one heart explosion of thankfulness after another.

Cheers to November. To Thanksgiving. To being thankful. And cheers to keeping that thankfulness alive in our hearts all year long.

19 comments:

love this so much! I think that it is important to be thankful all year long as well, a lot of people don't do this (including myself sometimes) you've just inspired me to work on this as well! xx, kenzhttp://sincerelykenz.com

I love this! I am going to practice this as well! It can be so easy to fall into a rut of wanting things we don't have and not recognizing and being thankful for all of the wonderful things that we do have!

oh my goodness, this post is so great. during the move i was so nervous that we wouldn't find a nice apartment in a nice neighborhood. now, when i lay in bed or on the couch and look around, i feel so lucky and thankful that i have a great home. it's so important to remember that people around the world don't have that. xo

I love this. I have been also working on being more thankful. Even though this has been a tough year for me I try to keep it in perspective. When I get down about my divorce I remind myself that there are people who are leaving abusive marriages and have to live in shelters or battle for years in Court and my husband and I are actually very friendly and even though it is sad it is moving smoothly and peacefully. There is ALWAYS something to be thankful for if you look hard enough for it.

Love this! I'm actually not a big fan of Thanksgiving, because it's the day (or month) that everyone stops complaining and talks about what they're thankful for. I'm a firm believer that Thanksgiving should be a daily celebration.

I’m an eternal optimist who loves words and writing more than most things in life. I overuse emojis and know the lyrics to an embarrassing number of rap songs. And I think life is so good, it's worth writing about.

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